Awakened by Fox and hounds
he calls for cavorters three.Get my breakfast pie and put that crown upon my head!Then, oh so gleefully,
in goes his royal thumb
ready for a veritable plum.YEEEEOW!

Inside that massive flakey crust
five and twenty blackbirds
baked in a bordered row.
Oh no! He’ll have to eat crow!

And now this silly poem must stop
although the tale itself does not.
Guess its ending from sounds you hear
louder, louder, more and more
that huffing puffing at his door.

Written for dVerse, the virtual pub for poets where I’m hosting Tuesday Poetics, asking folks to write a poem, serious or humorous, that somehow deals with opposites or antithesis. Folks can include simple opposite words such as light/dark, good/bad in the poem; look at one event from two opposite view points; or take a nursery rhyme and write it in an opposite way — instead of There was an old woman who lived in a shoe – make it a man! In this post, I’ve satirically dealt with a number of different nursery rhymes, changing their meaning completely. For a more serious take on the prompt, go to my poem Hovering In Absentia.

Oh you hit it on the head here, Toni. But, was not happy with the Little Red Hen – even though I so disagree with that individual in so many ways. Don’t think that action helped anyone….certainly not little chicks, siglets, ducklings etc who look to their parents and adults for examples.
May we ALL strive for civility and not sink to our lowest common denominator…..I am struck by Michelle Obama’s thoughtful response: “when they go low, we go higher.” Would that EVERYONE could live with those words. Mud wrestling is not a pretty sport to watch….no matter whose side you are on. Was it Aretha Franklin who sang the song R-E-S-P-E-C-T? Where is that today?

Fantastic satire Lillian. It makes it all the more spectacular when tagged to the Nursery Rhymes and even better when it relates to the White House. He is still bellicose but less of a twitter guy now!

So glad you enjoyed, Anell! I tried to comment on your Days of Feast and Famine (I enjoyed it so much) but couldn’t find a place to be the first commenter so instead, put my comment for it on the post the day before. Using the difference in the setting of a table is such a good way to picture the passage of time!